Fresno city staff members go on strike

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A radical of City of Fresno Employees are connected the picket lines calling for higher wages and improvements to moving conditions.

Those connected onslaught this greeting are portion of the City of Fresno Professional Employees Association oregon CFPEA, which represents 400 supervisors who oversee transit, wastewater and our section parks.

The national wants a 3-percent wage increase, a guaranteed azygous time disconnected for those on-call employees 24/7, and the quality to prime shifts based connected seniority.

Union members accidental astir each nationalist services volition beryllium impacted successful immoderate mode conscionable earlier the holidays.

They're hoping that a solution tin beryllium reached soon.

"We're not trying to wounded the public; we're not trying to wounded my members," said national president Jesse Gonzalez. "It's a unsmooth concern for them arsenic good due to the fact that they volition beryllium without wage for 2 days astatine Christmastime."

Fresno's City Manager, Georgeanne White, said successful a connection that the metropolis has made important efforts to code CFPEA's concerns with proposals that are fair, competitive, and fiscally responsible.

The metropolis presented its last, champion and last connection to the national successful October, including a 2-percent ongoing wage summation retroactive to June 17th and a 1-percent, one-time outgo based connected yearly basal salary.

This onslaught is expected to past 3 days.